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Hello, fans of #maths and #lego. Every day this month, I intend to share a mathematical prompt built out of Lego with some of my usual #NoticeWonder type questions. The first is here: https://alisonkiddle.co.uk/daily-lego-maths-day-1/
I'd love if you shared it, commented, discussed it with the small mathematicians in your life, and sent me your suggestions of other maths I can make out of Lego!
#LegoMaths #LegoMath
Here's today's picture if you don't want to click through to my blog!
#LegoMaths #LegoMath
@alisonkiddle very slow off the mark here, finally turned our attention to #LegoMaths. Day 1 my son: “I noticed they’re all squares. I wondered why Alison chose red and yellow.” He doesn’t remember playing Lego with you back in 2019 - half his life ago!
@peterrowlett Please tell him I chose red and yellow because those are the colours I have most of, along with white, and so lots of the patterns I made ended up being red and yellow or red and white!
@peterrowlett Also the challenge was for me to post every day in August, not for others to engage every day - you can spend as long as you like catching up!
@alisonkiddle thanks. We had a nice chat about odds and evens, and he correctly worked out the red and yellow numbers for 5-, 10- and 9-sided squares.
@alisonkiddle No small mathematicians in my life this week (I can usually borrow some of my friends' kids 
but my own are 21 & 24)
I notice that your Legos are in square shapes... and I'll leave the rest of the Qs to others about formulas.
I wonder how many raised bumps are in each shape you've constructed, and how many red vs. yellow bricks are in each shape, and how many total bricks we need to make 5 or 10 shapes in this pattern.
#NoticeWonder #ClassroomMath #TMWYK (talking math with your kids)
@alisonkiddle this is such a cool idea.
@suzza thanks! I hope I still think so on day 20 when I've run out of ideas...
@alisonkiddle Here is an idea that you can steal. A Lego Möbius strip.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/H5Kdr-NFSwU
I've also seen them build some impressive spheres!
Maybe build one of the platonic solids?
@suzza that's incredibly cool!